frat

We're not like frat boys -- this is our home and we choose to let people in.

Many SV startups are proxies for being a close knit frat.

From outside it feels like YC is becoming a frat house.

Why is this stupid frat house bullshit on the front page of Hacker News?

There are a hell of a lot more girls in frat culture than there are in programmer culture.

There's a reason the frat house isn't in the middle of the classroom on most college campuses.

You have this likable, but dumb, frat president coming in and becoming CEO.

Is the subtext here about hostile frat culture, or, worse, about harassment?

If you're busy running YC it's hard to have the occasion to meet and find people who are not part of the same frat house.

I also don't like how VC-funded egotistical frat boys run companies.

They made a joke about the word "dong" sounding like the word "dongle".If this is what you think a frat house sounds like, you are very mistaken.

I opened the page after reading this comments and expected to see frat insignia, cleavage, etc.... Plain blue on white.

And every public piece of data on Facebook is available to every frat rat and creepy stalker on the planet.

If there are mostly men in a group then it's obviously anti-women, uninviting to women, and most likely a bunch of women hating frat boys.

From Urban Dictionary:brogrammer, n.: A programmer who breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a frat-boy: popped collars, bad beer, and calling everybody "bro".

You mean most calculus homework isn't done at frat keggers?The root of the problem is a management primate dominance fad; the mere grunt laborers beneath me don't think; I'm of a superior social class who can think; therefore who cares if the losers can't think.

The author's immediate correlation of beer and "frat culture" is easily the most sexist thing I've read this week, and the implication that "raging hormones and inexperience" combined with an occasional afternoon beer automatically means I become a raging pervert bent on harassing any woman in sight is ludicrous.